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(1) Nowadays, I meet many more Americans than Brits who have at least an intermediate ability in foreign languages (principally but by no means exclusively Spanish).
(2) At least a fifth of people living in the US speak a language other than English at home. Of course, the majority of these speak Spanish, but there are hundreds of other languages present in the US too, from all over the world. The notion that foreign languages "go to die" in the US is less and less true, if it was ever true at all.
(3) It is increasingly common in US cities to have multilingual signs, menus, timetables and even PAs. The contrast with British cities in that respect (including even London) is pretty striking.
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